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On a recent visit to Cape May Point State Park in search of an elusive Purple Gallinule I did not find my quarry but I did find quite a few photogenic birds.  One of them or, rather, several of them, were Gadwall – a pile of ducklings with their mother.  I am used to seeing [...]

There are three species of waterfowl that birders in most of the eastern United States are going to encounter on almost any birding outing that includes a pond, lake, or other body of water – The Usual Waterfowl.  They are almost unavoidable in their ubiquity, able to adapt to almost any urban or suburban environment [...]

Everyone likes to see ducklings and almost everywhere in the world the ducklings that people are most likely to see are Mallards.  Or, at least, people are likely to see Mallards and near-Mallards, otherwise known as Manky Mallards.  Here are a series of duckling pictures taken back in 2007 in Congress Park in Saratoga Springs, [...]

My lunchtime walk in Congress Park today was accompanied by many fewer ducklings then I had expected. Last week I saw three broods totaling 23 ducklings and today I only saw 8! Whether it was crows, cats, people, or other predators I don’t know, but I guess this is why Mallards have large broods. The [...]

Three broods, one of 11, one of 9, and one of 3, all in Congress Park in Saratoga Springs. I was wondering where all the female ducks had went… The oddball duckling was with what looked like a pure female Mallard, and all the other ducklings looked like normal Mallards. Was some egg dumping going [...]